Aspidoceratinae

The Aspidoceratinae is a subfamily in the perisphictacean ammonite family, Aspidoceratidae found world wide in middle and upper Jurassic sediments.

Aspidoceratinae

Neoammoniten · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AspidoceratidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Ammonoidea
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 31 million years on record.

The record covers at least 174.7 Mya to 143.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 137.05 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 238 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 238 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 238 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 228 of 238 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 8 of 238 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous203–200 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences200–198 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences198–196 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences196–194 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences194–192 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences192–189 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences189–187 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences187–185 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences185–183 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences183–180 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences180–178 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences178–176 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences176–174 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences167–165 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences165–163 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences163–160 Mya — about 11 occurrences160–158 Mya — about 17 occurrences158–156 Mya — about 11 occurrences156–154 Mya — about 34 occurrences154–151 Mya — about 50 occurrences151–149 Mya — about 43 occurrences149–147 Mya — about 25 occurrences147–145 Mya — about 24 occurrences145–142 Mya — about 17 occurrences142–140 Mya — about 4 occurrences140–138 Mya — about 2 occurrences138–136 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences174.7 Mya143.1 Mya203 Mya136 Mya

238 occurrences of Aspidoceratinae on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

238 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

33 formations

Naifa — 14.28°N, 48.55°ENaifa — 14.27°N, 48.57°ENaifa — 14.34°N, 48.39°EVaca Muerta — 38.87°S, 70.20°WVaca Muerta — 38.59°S, 70.13°WVaca Muerta — 39.71°S, 69.75°WVaca Muerta — 39.85°S, 69.83°WLa Caja — 23.63°N, 100.85°WLa Caja — 23.58°N, 100.82°WHajar — 14.30°N, 48.49°EHajar — 14.33°N, 48.38°EHajar — 14.55°N, 48.04°ERosso Ammonitico — 38.00°N, 12.00°EBugarone — 43.75°N, 13.02°EReuchenette — 47.40°N, 7.03°ECalcaire a oolithes ferrugineuses — 49.30°N, 0.07°WLes Calcaires Médians — 35.68°N, 0.92°WLes Marnes Intermédiaires — 35.68°N, 0.92°WSpiti Shale — 32.28°N, 78.02°EKatrol — 23.50°N, 70.50°EGeisental — 48.75°N, 11.25°ESolnhofen — 48.00°N, 10.00°EUsseltal — 48.00°N, 11.00°EUsseltal — 48.80°N, 10.93°ELo Valdés — 34.27°S, 69.93°WLo Valdés — 33.75°S, 70.03°WDursztyn — 49.44°N, 20.31°EDursztyn — 50.40°N, 19.06°ERennertshofen — 48.00°N, 10.00°ERosso Ammonitiko — 38.00°N, 12.00°EQal'eh Dokhtar — 33.87°N, 57.30°EAbadia — 38.98°N, 9.07°WMalone — 31.23°N, 105.55°WLatady — 75.67°S, 66.50°WDaghani Shale — 10.16°N, 43.06°E

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The named rock units Aspidoceratinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 133 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Aspidoceratinae and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Aspidoceratinae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

979 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 140 sites for Aspidoceratinae, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

65 references

Each of the 238 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 53 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Aspidoceratinae

Credit
Neoammoniten
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Aspidoceratinae was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zittel 1895